Saw-handle



(No ModeL) C. RICHARDSON.

SAW HANDLE.

No. 320,169, Patented June 16, 1885.

human 11 c.

F F FICEQ CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON, OF NFAVARK, NElV JERSEY.

SAW-HANDLE.

FiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,169, dated June 16,1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER RICH- ARDSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Combination Saw-Handles, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawin s, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in a special construction for the handle of a hands-aw, whereby it is provided with several grooves, bolt-holes, and a removable clamping-bolt adapted to fit such holes, and to hold various kinds of sawblades in difl'erent positions relative to the handle.

It also consists in the combination, with a longitudinal groove, of pins inserted through the wood across the bottom of the groove to sustain the pressure of the saw blade. A modification of the same also includes the use of two longitudinal grooves and two holes through the head for the clamping-bolt.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the handle with a pruning-saw, S, clamped in the bottom longitudinal groove, D. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same construction without the saw-blade, the alternative longitudinal groove F being shown at the right-hand side in both these figures, and also in Fig. 3,which is a plan of the handle, with a compass-saw, S, inserted in such side groove. Fig. 4 is a plan, and 5 an end, view of the handle constructed without such side groove, and having a key-hole saw, S, clamped in the transverse groove E.

A is the shank of the saw-handle of the usual hooked shape employed with hand-saws intended for use in one hand, and formed with a head, 13, projecting forward at right angles from the handle to receive the saw-blade. O is a bolt-hole inserted through the head parallel with the shank of the handle, and D and E are respectively longitudinal and transverse grooves, both formed in the head upon the inner side and intersecting the hole C. G is a bolt inserted through the hole and provided upon its inner end with a slot or hook to receive the saw-blade, and upon its outer end with a nut, G, to draw such hook or slot toward the bottom of the grooves.

In Figs. 1, 2, 4, and the clampingbolt (l is shown inserted through a vertical hole, 0,

I which appears in the top of the handle, as seen in Fig. 3; but in the latter figure the bolt is inserted in a transverse hole, 0', which. is indicated in Figs. 1 and 4. lhe grooves D, E, and F extend about half-way through the head If, as shown in the drawings, the outer side of the head next the thumb-nut G (shown in Fig. 1) not being weakened by any perforation except the bolt-hole O.

A second feature of my invention consists in the insertion of metallic pins 00 00 through the head of the handle at the bottom of the longitudinal groove D. These pins are employed chiefly to sustain the back of the saw in contact with the longitudinal fibers of the wood, which do not resist the wear and jarring of the blade so well as when the groove is formed across the grain of the wood, as at E. If riveted over at the ends, the pins also serve to strengthen the head of the handle where it is intersected by the grooves D and E. lVhen the groove F is formed in one side of the head in conjunction with the other grooves, the corner piece on that side of the head is cut entirely out, so that the blade and part of the bolt 0 are exposed, as seen in Fig. 1, where the letter E is placed; but the latter is sufficient to sustain the blade, as the inner end of it is fully inclosed in the groove F. By these constructions the handle is adapted for holding several kinds of blades in a variety of positions, and thus doing many kinds of work for which several separate tools would otherwise be required, It is also adapted to fit any blades ordinarily found in stores or on sale.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a crosscut-saw handle with a metallic plate having grooves arranged at right angles to vary the application of the handle to the saw-blade, and that fret-saw and other handles have been made to hold the saw in ditl'erent positions; but I am not aware that any hooked handle constructed like that shown herein with a shank, A, and a head, B, projected forward at right angles thereto has been provided with a clamping-bolt inserted through the head at the intersection of two or more saw-grooves, in themannerhcrcin set forth. I donot there wood transversely to the bottom of the groove.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim the same as follows:

l. The combination, with the handle-head having grooves D, E, and F, arranged as described, of the hole 0, formed at the intersection of the grooves D and E, the hole 0, formed across the groove F, and the remov- 2o able bolt 0, adapted to fit either of the holes 0 or O", and to clamp a saw-blade in either of the three slots, all substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the wooden han- 25 dle-head and the groove for the saw-blade, of

the pins m0, inserted in the wood transversely at the bottom of the groove, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 0 my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

L. LEE, THos. S. CRANE. 

